. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. ).. HE CHURCH is dedicated to St. Mary. At the presenttime, however, it is erroneously called the Church of SS. Maryand Nicholas. The late Sir Gilbert Scott, in his Report onthe Restoration of Nantwich Church (1854), adopted thisdouble dedication, possibly on the authority of Bacons editionof Liber Regis;* or on that of the old antiquary, BrowneWillis,t who wrote in the early part of the eighteenth century,and who appears to have confounded the two separate religiousfoundations of St. Marys Chap
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. ).. HE CHURCH is dedicated to St. Mary. At the presenttime, however, it is erroneously called the Church of SS. Maryand Nicholas. The late Sir Gilbert Scott, in his Report onthe Restoration of Nantwich Church (1854), adopted thisdouble dedication, possibly on the authority of Bacons editionof Liber Regis;* or on that of the old antiquary, BrowneWillis,t who wrote in the early part of the eighteenth century,and who appears to have confounded the two separate religiousfoundations of St. Marys Chapel (or Church) and St. NicholasChapel. As there is great danger of this error being perpetuated,J it should be clearlyunderstood that not a single instance is to be found of this double dedication in pre-Reformation times; and to adopt it now is both incorrect and absurd; as those Chapelshave been shown, in the foregoing pages, to have been two distindt religious edifices indifferent parts of the town. There seems to be in the Church itself sufficient proof instone, of the original and single dedic
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